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A. Toler presented his ideas to DW.
Russian opposition leader A. Navaln was monitored and followed by chemical weapons experts from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) before the poisoning, revealed Bellingcat, an independent investigative organization, in a joint press report on Monday.
In August, A. Navaln crashed into a plane flying from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. Later he was transferred to Berlin and treated in a clinic there. German experts concluded that A. Navalnas had been poisoned by the nerve paralyzing substance “Novičiok” created in the Soviet Union.
DW spoke with Bellingcat investigative journalist A. Toler. He is a member of the Navaln Poison Team.
“We analyzed the Russian data market, the huge amount of telecom data, as well as flight documents related to the passengers that looked suspicious. We were looking for people whose travel routes coincided with Navalno’s route at the time he was in Siberia “, explained the journalist.
An investigation by Bellingcat revealed that eight FSB employees participated. The travel itinerary of three of them was completely in line with A. Navalno at the time he was poisoned.
“The route of travel of these people was exactly the same: they followed A. Navalna. And these were not ordinary FSB officials. These were the participants in the medical training of a chemical weapon that coincided with the one that finally affected A. Navalnas in Tomsk, ”said A. Toler.
The investigation also revealed that FSB officials had been following Navalna for a long time, following the famous criticism of the Kremlin across Russia.
“After taking a closer look at these people, we were very surprised. We noticed that these people, along with several colleagues, have been following A. Navalnas since 2017. more than 30 trips,” said the researcher.
When asked what would happen to the people identified by Bellingcat, Toler said it would be up to Russian authorities, although no poisoning investigation is currently underway in Russia.
“I have no idea what will happen to these people. We provide their names. Probably nothing will happen to them, but everyone will be able to find out their names,” admitted A. Toler.
The Russian authorities have consistently denied any link to the Navaln poisoning. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the poisoning of Navaln, from which he nearly died, was not reason enough to launch a criminal investigation.
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